Connecticut western news., 1887-11-09
WEDNESDAY, NOV. g. 1887.
Local News.

once near hlS nay press.
 Three persons united, by letter, with the Pilgrim church last Sunday.
 Charles Paul IS building substant- ial wire fence in front of his residence. -J.W W. Goodrich and family moved from East Canaan to Roxbury last week. ID P. Wheeler, of Washington Hol- low, N Y visited friends here last week. John 0. Sturges and family moved last week from Huntsville to Bridge port.
 Peter Hicks was housed up all last week, threatened with pneumonia but he is out again this week.
 Pianos and Organs rented or sold on installments by Capewell, the jeweler West Winsted, Ct. ..
 Work was begun yesterday on the basement for E. R. Lorrain's new house on Prospect street.
 Ensign Peet, of the firm of Fer guson < Peet, of Bridgeport, is at home, taking needed rest.
 Albert A. Hubbard has improved the appearance of his place on Pilgrim hill by the removal of that long shed which looked like bowling alley.
 The ladies of the M E. aid society will give an oyster supper at Geo. P. Strong's on Friday eve Nov Il. Supper 25 cts. served from 6 to o'clock All cordially invited.
 The death and burial of Mrs Joseph W Peet's father. Dr Hammond Stod- dArd, is mentioned by our West Corn wall correspondent. He died on his 77th birthday.
 70. H. Briggs started for California Nov on business trip in company with Jesse Grant, and Isaac Stoddard gen. eral manager of The Moore-Benjamin Go. They intend to be absent about three weeks.
 Quite 8 number of monuments and headstones have been erected in the lower cemetery this season. Robert Van Deusen has recently erected family monument. A neat little monument was erected last week to the memory of the late Julius Frien.
 Since the telephone was removed from the Warner House, several weeks ago, our village has been without public, or paying telephone office until last week, when telephone was placed in W. H. Camps drug store and there you call "Hello" all you wish. if you only have shekels enough.
 The exterior of the Warner House is being painted, large bay window built on the east side, and number of i'm provements will be made on the interior. The barn has just been painted. Would it not be pious idea to spend 8 little money on the livery by either purchas- ing new outfit or making some repairs on the old horses and wagons?
 Three cheers for Brother Catlin. '' So said we all of us every one of us in the News office last Monday when his wedding notice was received which ap- pears in another column. He writes that he ''is we'll satisfied with Ruggin (g)s and don't expect to find married life any harder than single life." So mote il be. Last winter MT Catlin was foreman of the News composing room. We tender congratulations to him and his bride from the Buckeye state.
 F. 0. Smalley is the editor and proprietor of the Danbury Register, the new journal that was born at Danbury Conn, Friday Nov 4. The Register i. a7 column folio and will be published weekly, terms Sl, per year. Danbury was already we'll supplied with news papers, but MT Smalley says he believes there is yet room for ''one more". Tn, Register is 8 healthy looking infant ani by careful nursing it may grow to be , yearling.
 When man comes in your offic, and blanks down the cash, and say ''send me your paper for year" tha means business. When one says, c" want your paper but haven't got thu money now," that's all right. When h. takes it out of the post-office for severa months and sends it back refused, that's meanness. When 8 man spend from ten cents te dollar for cigars o beer every week, and says he can't affor' to take his home paper, that's a n such thing. When aman borrows hi neighbor's paper to read every week that's cheek.-[Exchange.
 Undoubtedly the most God-fo1 saken-no, man-forsaken, - cemeter in New England IS the one in the req of the Congregational church at Eas Canaan. We have frequently been re quested to ventilate in our columns th neglected condition of said cemetery We have refrained from doing so hopes that the public spirited citizens ( that village would ere this. restore th cemetery to its former condition. Tt subject was mentioned to promine1 citizen of that village few days sine and he replied "I do not know an thing about the cemetery. have nt visited it within 10 years," and yet | lives within few rods of it and pr, bably passes by. it hundred times